Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly

Welcome to Enterprise Mobility Asia News Weekly, an online newsletter that consists of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility in Asia. Asia is predicted to be the fastest area of growth for enterprise mobility between now and 2016.

ZDNet features a ten minute video of an interview with China's Huawei Technologies' CMO Shao Yang, discussing the next stage of wireless broadband networks, phablets, and Huawei's vision of the future of mobile devices. Read Original Content

Beijing NationSky Network Technology has entered into an agreement to provide its NQSky mobile enterprise management system to the Shandong branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, with plans to deploy the system on 6,000 Android mobile devices. Read Original Content

Apple and telecom service provider Bharti Airtel teamed up to launch India's first 4G on mobile, enabling Airtel customers using Apple iPhone 5S or 5C smartphones to experience 4G on their devices. Read Original Content

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McDonald's customers in Singapore can now use their Visa card to pay for delivery service using the McDelivery mobile app. According to McDonald's, "Singapore is also an ideal market for this service as smartphone penetration is high and Singaporeans are eager to embrace new technology". Read Original Content

As part of a drive to meet the needs of an increasing mobile working population, Panasonic has launched the new Toughbook CF-LX3 in Malaysia. Read Original Content

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Resembling a flip style mobile phone, the AirWire LTE Wi-Fi dongle provides Internet connectivity via its built-in Wi-Fi hotspot or USB connection. The dongle is designed for the Indian market and expected to deploy in India in late 2014. Read Original Content

According to data from China's three telecommunications operators, the country saw a 0.6 percent monthly increase in the number of mobile subscribers, up to 1.24 billion in January. Read Original Content

To better represent its digital services, mobile, data, cloud, apps and other new technology, and to reflect its new direction, Telecom New Zealand is planning a name change this year to Spark. Read Original Content

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi began its expansion outside of China with the launch of its Android devices in Singapore on February 21, and a local service center will be opened to support customers in Singapore. Read Original Content

According to a new report from British company OpenSignal, Australia has the world's fastest mobile internet, with an average download speed on 4G networks of 24.5 Mbps. When it comes to coverage, however, the country ranks ninth. Australians have access to 4G networks 58 percent of the time, while first-ranked South Korea has access 91 percent of the time. Read Original Content

Asian communications firm SingTel is working with Ericsson to launch several 4G/LTE services this year. The new services include: 300Mbps mobile broadband service with LTE-Advanced; improved video streaming with LTE Broadcast technology; and enhanced indoor coverage with Ericsson Radio Dot System technology. Read Original Content

Samsung, China's top smartphone vendor, is planning an April launch of the new water-resistant Galaxy 5 with a fingerprint reader, larger screen, 16 megapixel camera and a longer lasting battery. Read Original Content

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Kevin Benedict serves as the Senior Vice President, Solutions Strategy, at Regalix, a Silicon Valley based company, focused on bringing the best strategies, digital technologies, processes and people together to deliver improved customer experiences, journeys and success through the combination of intelligent solutions, analytics, automation and services.
He is a popular writer, speaker and futurist, and in the past 8 years he has taught workshops for large enterprises and government agencies in 18 different countries. He has over 32 years of experience working with strategic enterprise IT solutions and business processes, and he is also a veteran executive working with both solution and services companies. He has written dozens of technology and strategy reports, over a thousand articles, interviewed hundreds of technology experts, and produced videos on the future of digital technologies and their impact on industries.

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In his general session at 19th Cloud Expo, Manish Dixit, VP of Product and Engineering at Dice, discussed how Dice leverages data insights and tools to help both tech professionals and recruiters better understand how skills relate to each other and which skills are in high demand using interactive visualizations and salary indicator tools to maximize earning potential.
Manish Dixit is VP of Product and Engineering at Dice. As the leader of the Product, Engineering and Data Sciences team at D...

At CloudEXPO Silicon Valley, June 24-26, 2019, Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with expanded DevOpsSUMMIT and FinTechEXPO programs within the DXWorldEXPO agenda. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throug...

Where many organizations get into trouble, however, is that they try to have a broad and deep knowledge in each of these areas. This is a huge blow to an organization's productivity. By automating or outsourcing some of these pieces, such as databases, infrastructure, and networks, your team can instead focus on development, testing, and deployment. Further, organizations that focus their attention on these areas can eventually move to a test-driven development structure that condenses several l...

The term "digital transformation" (DX) is being used by everyone for just about any company initiative that involves technology, the web, ecommerce, software, or even customer experience. While the term has certainly turned into a buzzword with a lot of hype, the transition to a more connected, digital world is real and comes with real challenges.
In his opening keynote, Four Essentials To Become DX Hero Status Now, Jonathan Hoppe, Co-Founder and CTO of Total Uptime Technologies, shared that ...

Over the course of two days, in addition to insightful conversations and presentations delving into the industry's current pressing challenges, there was considerable buzz about digital transformation and how it is enabling global enterprises to accelerate business growth.
Blockchain has been a term that people hear but don't quite understand. The most common myths about blockchain include the assumption that it is private, or that there is only one blockchain, and the idea that blockchain is...

Never mind that we might not know what the future holds for cryptocurrencies and how much values will fluctuate or even how the process of mining a coin could cost as much as the value of the coin itself - cryptocurrency mining is a hot industry and shows no signs of slowing down. However, energy consumption to mine cryptocurrency is one of the biggest issues facing this industry. Burning huge amounts of electricity isn't incidental to cryptocurrency, it's basically embedded in the core of "mini...

Every organization is facing their own Digital Transformation as they attempt to stay ahead of the competition, or worse, just keep up. Each new opportunity, whether embracing machine learning, IoT, or a cloud migration, seems to bring new development, deployment, and management models. The results are more diverse and federated computing models than any time in our history.

At CloudEXPO Silicon Valley, June 24-26, 2019, Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with expanded DevOpsSUMMIT and FinTechEXPO programs within the DXWorldEXPO agenda. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throug...

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Intel is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley. It is the world's second largest and second highest valued semiconductor chip maker based on revenue after being overtaken by Samsung, and is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers (PCs). Intel supplies processors for computer system manufacturers such as Apple, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. Intel also manufactures motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graph...

SUSE is a German-based, multinational, open-source software company that develops and sells Linux products to business customers. Founded in 1992, it was the first company to market Linux for the enterprise.
Founded in 1992, SUSE is the world's first provider of an Enterprise Linux distribution.

Cloud computing budgets worldwide are reaching into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and no organization can survive long without some sort of cloud migration strategy. Each month brings new announcements, use cases, and success stories.